http://www.cio.de/news/cio_worldnews/2245531/?qle=rssfeed_

Inkling is definitely going to shake things up. iPad only.

calibre plus Sigil equals formatting for epub, which works in iBooks for iPad and iPhone, and maybe for books for your students and your school!

Via Macintouch.

Before I get to the mechanics of everything in this post, I want to say a bit about why to do all this, and it’s much more than “branding” yourself. I had not long before found a post on 3 Quarks Daily, a group blog on current affairs, about thinking and working in this new economy and this new century. It was a link to an interview and podcast with Seth Godin, an unconventional marketing consultant and author. In this service economy, most of us have to provide something unique—there are videographers and editors all over. To be successful, Godin asserts that we have do our work as an artist would, to add ourselves in essential ways to what we do. After listening to this podcast a few times, and starting to read his blog, I’ve tried to consciously bring more of that attitude to what I do, and I encourage you to do that as well, and tell the story of it through social media. Now, to the links:

We talked of course about Facebook, and we also looked at this Mashable page about its privacy issues. There is of course Twitter, and I briefly pointed to this article about ways to use Twitter for business. Our own Carl Marxer provided a link on the spot to his own advice on using Twitter and other social media.

We focused mainly on LinkedIn, the networking site for professionals. Mashable, linked above, also had a page about searching for jobs on LinkedIn.

MCA-I member Jose Acosta explained how he’s found clients through Facebook as well as his LinkedIn page, and showed his SmugMug portfolio site. Looks nice!

I showed how easy it is to get a good, free blog for creating a website at WordPress.com. There are other options, of course, but I’m familiar with WordPress and it has a huge user base. I showed this article for using WordPress to set up a professional site and weblog.

Posterous is another site offering free blogs, and is easy to update via email. Educational Technologist Tony Vincent explains some features of Posterous here

An example with real relevance for media professionals is Steve Bransford’s blog, Downhome Traces. Steve regularly posts video of historians and long-time Atlanta residents sharing the history and their memories of Atlanta. It’s an absorbing site, offering interesting insight into our local scene, and a great showcase for his skills.

Other example sites: The DV Show, with regular informative posts and sometime video interviews with filmmakers, videographers, and equipment manufacturers.

Finally, that day I showed how relevant blogs and social networks can be, showcaseing Mac-watcher John Gruber’s Daring Fireball site, and his pointers to that day’s announcement of Google’s open-sourcing the VP8 video codec, and the new cloud storage service from Google. Both of these could have big impacts on how video professionals post and store video for online use.

An exhaustive list, nicely categorized, of blogs with valuable resources for policy makers, teachers, professors, grad students, educational technologists and anyone with a serious interest in where education is going.

Whether you want to be a teacher, principal or even an educational policy-maker, learning all you can about the field and how to be a more powerful leader while you’re still in college is essential. These blogs will fill you in on the latest news, provide inspiration, and ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest educational technologies so you can be the best education leader you can be.

Thanks, Karenne!

Other great resources after the jump.

YouTube has many videos about LinkedIn – this brief intro explains it very well.

LinkedIn’s Learning Center is the place to begin for more understanding of how it works and what it can mean, and for getting your profile started.

Among the good advice is Tony Karrer’s eLearning Technology blog. He compiled a rich collection of links in the post LinkedIn Guide for Knowledge Workers. (Arent’ teachers the original knowledge workers?) The links run from basic tutorials, to questioning his own assumptions about how to use LinkedIn, to finding expert level answers.

A few years ago, he posted Getting Value from LinkedIn. You’ve got a specific question about your work—ideas for handling a unique student problem, or operating an unusual combination of technologies (often brought about by aging equipment, declining budgets, and the need to get something done), or a fresh look at an often-used lesson plan – who can you ask? A well-maintained LinkedIn network offers assistance from active professionals who’ve made it clear they want to answer questions like that. We know they’re willing to help because they’re on LinkedIn.

Twitter interacts with LinkedIn, and with some new apps like Tweetdeck”:http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ so does Facebook. The recent and increasingly popular Posterous lets a single email update post go to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more.

There’s a lot of social media opportunities, and they take some getting used to, but it’s time well spent. As a pro, you should want to stay connected personally and professionally with a wide variety of people, to offer what you can and to find out what you need.

Great resource for making your presentation slides look better. Remember though – your presentation is not your talk! Design comes after writing what you’ll say.

Lifehacker—SlideFinder Helps You find Inspiration for Your Next Powerpoint Presentation.

Alrighty, back at work at Georgia State, and a first working post. With so many people wigging out about Apple’s purported tablet computer, here’s a savvy weigh-in from yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed:

Before the integration of the iSlate and iTunesU it was never possible to bring all the course and learning materials to one device. Course readings and video delivered through the browser were often difficult to navigate, and the reading experience was relatively poor. But with the iSlate and iTunesU it will be possible to download all the course related materials, hosting them locally for easy viewing and reading. At the same time, the browser experience in the iSlate will keep what is good about a Web based learning system – the ability to interact and communicate. Combining both the reading/viewing experience not browser based, with the collaboration/communication experience browser based will converge these activities into one device.

via Blog U.: iSlate / iTunesU / Higher Ed – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed.

If you’re looking for effective software, of all kinds, to use to run and teach in classroom, The Freewares of 2009 has a lot to offer you. It’s a month-by-month listing of the author’s favorite free software. Each item has a thoughtful comment about using the software, often with first-hand reporting. A very valuable year-end list.

Via My Apple Menu.

Wordle is great for making word clouds, which you can use in your classroom in many ways. Ellen sent me this

really useful little tip that opens up all sorts of new possibilities – a way of including phrases in word clouds. Look below and you will see what I am talking about. The phrase that Sylvie demonstrates is “Once upon a time”.

Read the details at Jamie K Eddie’s A really useful Wordle trick, and her neat-o followup tip here.